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Add info on how to checkout earlier versions pre-GitHub migrations

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
git, python
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start by locating the Git Bootcamp documentation in the devguide and review the existing guidance for checking out CPython versions. Add a short explanation of using tags for earlier releases such as 3.3 and 3.4, including the tag-listing and checkout examples from the issue. Done when a reader can find and follow the instructions to create a local branch from an earlier tag.

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Description

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It would be great if Git Bootcamp has information on how to checkout git tags to get the earlier CPython releases (e.g. 3.3, 3.4 )

3.3. and 3.4 aren't on CPython's GitHub as branches (unlike 3.7, 3.8, etc), but there are git tags, can can be checked out as follows:

# list all git tags matching v.3.3
git tag -l 'v3.3*'

# checkout the v.3.3.0 tag to a local branch
git checkout tags/v.3.3.0 -b my-own-3.3.0-branch
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